Ottawa’s emergency preparedness minister has warned that this summer could be even worse than last year’s record-breaking wildfire season — while communities on the front lines say they need federal money for prevention right now.
“What bothers me is that we take this wait-and-see attitude every single year,” said Don McCormick, mayor of Kimberly, a town in the B.C. interior.
“We are in a fire zone. This has been a fire area forever and we’ll continue to be. We need to be doing things that are going to allow our forests to manage the fires on their own, and not put our communities in
